Source: www.pctonline.com, December 28, 2012 By: John Culotta Until about five years ago, bed bugs were largely the stuff of bedtime sayings. “Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite.” Now, these tiny pests have emerged as a big nuisance throughout the country, with infestations affecting neighborhoods from New York City to Seattle. With the […]

Source: Sustainable Industries, January 1, 2013 By: Jerry Yudelson Green building will continue its rapid expansion globally in 2013 in spite of ongoing economic difficulties. More people are building green each year, and there is nothing on the horizon that will stop this MegaTrend or its constituent elements. However, the continuing slowdown in commercial real […]

Read here about how Marcellus natural gas production increased in 2012.

Source: Insurance & Financial Advisor, December 11, 2012 Maryland’s Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling Initiative Advisory Commission recently held its first vote, and endorsed four recommendations including bonds and self-insurance if hydraulic drilling is allowed in Western Maryland. The Cumberland Times-News reported the commission endorsed four financial safeguards when drilling for natural gas, known as “fracking”: […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 4, 2012 By: Elizabeth A. Holden, Hodgson Russ LLP A new Market Barometer survey published by Turner Construction Company, the largest green builder in the United States, provides an updated look on sustainability practices in new building projects. The study, which included a survey of more than 700 executives from a wide […]

Source: http://www.ohio.com, December 9, 2012 By: Bob Downing KENSINGTON: The hill tops in southwest Columbiana County off state Route 644 are under attack. Construction equipment is turning a former farm two miles east of Kensington into a natural gas-processing facility that is to open by next May. It is mostly a ground-clearing operation in Hanover […]

Source: Business Wire, November 28, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Fitch Ratings estimates industry asbestos reserves to be deficient by $2 billion to $8 billion at year-end 2011. Asbestos reserves make up approximately 4% of total property/casualty industry reserves with approximately 50% of reserves concentrated in five insurers. In a new report, Fitch examines a range […]

Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press, November 23, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A man who chose the cheap way to tear down an old textile mill in East Chattanooga and exposed a neighborhood to asbestos will be allowed to appeal his four-year sentence on the taxpayers’ dime — at least for now. Don Fillers, while awaiting […]

Read here about a state panel in Maryland that may require drillers to have pollution insurance.  

Source: http://construction.com, October 11, 2012M At a national meeting today of the BIMForum in Tacoma WA, McGraw-Hill Construction presented highlights of its new research showing the rapid advance of Building Information Modeling (BIM) usage by architects, engineers, contractors and owners in North America. Comparing results from its similar research in 2007 and 2009, McGraw-Hill Construction […]

Source: http://www.abc.org, October 17, 2012 At an Oct. 11 national meeting of the BIMForum in Tacoma, Wash., McGraw-Hill Construction presented new research showing that 74 percent of contractors are now using Building Information Modeling (BIM). The report also showed that BIM usage among architects, engineers, contractors and owners in North America is at 71 percent, […]

Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA), October 2, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Twelve years ago, the U.S. Green Building Council launched a rating system called LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, hoping that architects, engineers, designers and real estate firms would improve energy efficiency and increase the use of recycled materials and nontoxic […]